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Inf.
Forgery
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Forgery is of an original,
or a copy
Discernment false x
counterfeit
Forging x counterfeiting
at large
Forgery (2d rate) 1st to injure moral character
by charging a man with an offence which is so
only against the moral sanction as ingratitude,
vanity, extravagance — 2. to injure reputation
for talents literary, military &c — 3. Trade by
counterfeiting his marks &c. from which the offender
may or may not make a profit
Circumstances of the
writing
Matter written
1. Existence of a thing
2. Fact happening
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Coining is a species
of Forgery.
Forgery (to the profit of an offender) of the evidences
of his having paid a tax or fulfilled a burthensome
obligation.
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Threatening letters
anonymous
When the threats in a threatening letter are general
as it should be the worse for you, or you
shall repent it, bodily harm shall be intended
For a man's pains in such a case will naturally direct themselves
in the first place to his person.
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Torture in the
mainer
In some crimes as Incendiarism & Housebreaking
by night where some person of the accomplices
are caught in the fact & others get away
See a Tribunal for influ compelling discovery of
the fugitive their name, haunts &c. There may be
a standing one in great towns.
Evidence
Monitaires
Proclamation to persons in general to offer themselves
& give evidence to serve the purpose
of Monitaires note Subpoenas are addressed only
to the particular individuals.
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Person. Injuries
Necessary what
In determining what degree of violence or harm
shall be was necessary in the prosecution of any lawful
purpose by an act which otherwise would be a personal
injury allowance shall be made for the infirmity of human judgment. Accordingly it shall be consider'd not merely whether a
less harmful method of accomplishing the same purpose
might or might not occur to a person considering the case
in cool blood, but whether such a method did actually occur
to the person in the purturbation of mind he was in and appear equally practicable to him with that
which he actually
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jeremy bentham |
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